Housing estate, set within the former area of Tredegar Park (NPRN 266066). Designed by MacCormack & Jamieson, Wales and West Design Group in association with Mouchel Design Consortium (Mouchel and Partners), and built between 1976-79, the Duffryn estate, which houses 3,500 people on a 38-hectare site, is ‘the largest example in the UK of a low-rise, high-density housing scheme based on the “perimeter planning” theoretical design model.’ It consisted of 977 houses on a 96-acre site, and ‘composed of two-storey terraces arranged on plan as an almost continuous series of irregular octagonal courtyards, or cul-de-sacs, around woodland.’ The Duffryn estate wasn’t fully realised to its complete design but the experiment of prefabricated timber-frame was later adopted and developed by Newport in 1980 for The Marches Estate.

Photographed during aerial reconnaissance on 21st June 2010.

Sources

'From the Archive' South Wales Argus, 9 June 2018
Edward Holland and Julian Holder, 'Advice to Inform Post-war Listing in Wales' (2019), p.25 
Jonathan Vining, 'Modernism in Wales', Dissertation, University of Bath (2013-2014), pp.52-53
Jonathan Vining and Malcolm Parry, Wales 1901-2000 (2007), p.26

Meilyr Powel, RCAHMW. March 2021.